This is just to say that I still haven’t fallen off the face of the earth. But, in defense of my recent postlessness, I’ve been grading fall-on-my-sword amounts of literary analysis papers for the last week. Y’all, I’m a tad rusty after the world’s largest maternity leave. Nothing, nothing in the world of managing the […]
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Educating a Kindergartener
Recently, my daughter came home from kindergarten and launched into an explanation of the difference between fiction and nonfiction. I was duly impressed when she then provided several examples of both. I smiled to myself, and frankly, I had a little moment where I privately extolled the virtues of a good education. I praised her […]
Things I Love About Island Living #11
I love the skies above the waters, and especially, the point on the distant horizon where sky meets sea. You might want to check out 10 of the other things I love about island living as well. #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, & #10
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Schoolmarm Shoes
I believe it’s time for a little reflection on the changes wrought by my return to teaching. I suppose I could write a helpful how-to post on successfully juggling multiple jobs, multiple small people, and one LCB with multiple issues. But that would make LCB laugh, long and hard, so we won’t go there. I […]
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Playing with the Big Boys
She may be all girl, and she may be only five, but this girl loves nothing more than playing with the big boys.
Lord of the Flies Survival Challenge
Right now, my students are in the middle of reading Lord of the Flies by William Golding. The novel, if you are unfamiliar with it, takes place during World War II and is about a group of British boys who survive a plane crash, landing on an uninhabited island. There are no adults that survive […]